Gotta Love Mondays...

Mondays for me in Israel are great.  While most people are going back to work after a long weekend of partying and watching football, dreading the next five days until they can do it all over again, I am waking up (usually at noon) looking forward to having a full day of NOTHING.  Monday is our day off, meaning no practice, no meetings, no workouts, no nothing!  It's a day for us to basically rest our bodies, and get ourselves prepared for the week ahead.  Our coaches stress to us the importance of taking the day off, telling us that we cannot work out even if we want to.  The reason they do this is so they can say they gave us all of Monday off if any of the players complain later in the week about tough practices.  I actually think it's a good idea, because it really lets the player get away from basketball for a day, and concentrate on getting rested up, as well as taking care of other things that we might not have time to do during the week (like laundry, grocery shopping, etc.)  It's already three o'clock in the afternoon here, and I haven't done anything except some laundry, as well as caught myself up on some TV Shows from the states (Entourage, Californication, Cold Case).  I am waiting until 4:30, because that's when the bank opens back up, and I need to get some of those US Dollars (we get paid in USD) exchanged for some shekels, so I don't have to dip into my US Wells Fargo account which is just sittin' there chillin, waitin for me to come back for that December Break.  After the bank, I'll run over to the mall, pick up some necessities that I'm running low on, and then hit the grocery store on the way home.  Some may call it a boring day, but to me, it's the best day of the week!  Tomorrow we have two practices (shooting workout in the morning, real practice at night) so you best believe I will be chillin' at the crib all night.  Nothing else major is going on, just excited to get back to practice, obviously gotta' change some opinions about what I'm capable of doing, but I'm not too worried... it's nothing I haven't had to do before.